{"product_id":"alli-donde-el-mar-recuerda-a-place-where-the-sea-remembers-a-place-where-the-sea-remembers-paperback","title":"Alli Donde el Mar Recuerda = A Place Where the Sea Remembers = A Place Where the Sea Remembers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandra Benitez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll  Donde el Mar Recuerda\u003c\/i\u003e es un relato obsesionante de amor, ira, esperanza, y tragedia cuyos personajes subsisten mucho despu s de haber le do la  ltima p gina. En el coraz n del relato est  Chayo, la vendedora de flores, y su esposo, Candelario, el ensaladero, quienes esperan que al fin Dios los bendiga con el hijo que pensaron nunca tendr an. Sin embargo, el motivo de su felicidad provoca una cadena de sucesos que marca las vidas de todos los habitantes de Santiago, una aldea mexicana. Sus esperanzas, triunfos, defectos, y fracasos hacen una impresi n imborrable de un mundo en cual el destino puede depender del m s m nimo hecho. \u003ci\u003eAll  Donde el Mar Recuerda, \u003c\/i\u003e un asombroso debut por una nueva voz en el g nero novel stico de Am rica, es un libro que nunca olvidar .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Alli Donde el Mar Recuerda' es un relato obsesionante de amor, ira, esperanza, y tragedia cuyos personajes subsisten mucho despues de haber leido la ultima pagina. En el corazon del relato esta Chayo, la vendedora de flores, y su esposo, Candelario, el ensaladero, quienes esperan que al fin Dios los bendiga con el hijo que pensaron nunca tendrian. Sin embargo el motivo de su felicidad provoca una cadena de sucesos que marca las vidas do todos los habitantes de Santiago, una aldea mexicana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Benitez \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I spent my life moving between the Latin American culture of my\u003cbr\u003e Puerto Rican mother and the Anglo-American culture of my father. \u003cbr\u003e I was born on March 26, 1941 in Washington, D.C., one of a pair of\u003cbr\u003e identical twins. My sister died only a month after our birth. A year \u003cbr\u003e later my parents and I moved to Mexico where another sister was born. \u003cbr\u003e My childhood and early adulthood were spent in Mexico and El Salvador. \u003cbr\u003e When I think of those years, the images that come to me are awash in \u003cbr\u003e the color saffron: the Spanish language, the permeable scent of cedar \u003cbr\u003e and leather, the shimmering heat, the color of the women in the household, \u003cbr\u003e the stories they told, the lives they shared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In Latin America, I learned that life is frail and most\u003cbr\u003e always capricious, that people find joy in the midst of insurmountable \u003cbr\u003e obstacles, that in the end, it is hope that saves us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"When I became a teenager, I was sent to live for three\u003cbr\u003e years on my paternal grandparents' farm in Northeastern\u003cbr\u003e Missouri, and this is where I attended high school. I was the first\u003cbr\u003e Latina the people there had ever known. Those years live for me\u003cbr\u003e in a pale blue light: the thin sheen the setting sun casts on the\u003cbr\u003e snow banks, the color of my father's eyes, the doleful bawl a cow\u003cbr\u003e makes when it has lost its calf, the back-breaking work that is the\u003cbr\u003e farmer's lot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In Missouri, I learned that life is what you make it, and \u003cbr\u003e that satisfaction comes with a job well done, that in the end, \u003cbr\u003e it is steadfastness that saves us.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I received my undergraduate and master's degrees from\u003cbr\u003e Northeast Missouri State University. Over the years I have been\u003cbr\u003e an English, Spanish, and Literature teacher at both high school\u003cbr\u003e and university levels. I have been a translator, and I have worked\u003cbr\u003e in the international division of a major training corporation. I\u003cbr\u003e have traveled extensively throughout Latin America. Since 1980, \u003cbr\u003e I have been a fiction writer and a creative writing teacher. I have\u003cbr\u003e two grown sons and I live with my husband in Minnesota.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I came to writing late. I was thirty-nine before I gathered\u003cbr\u003e enough courage to begin. When I hear other writers talk about\u003cbr\u003e writing, I'm amazed by those who say they always knew they had\u003cbr\u003e to write. When I was a girl, I never wished to do it. Being a writer\u003cbr\u003e was something magical I never dreamed I could attain. But while\u003cbr\u003e growing up, I frequently had a book in my lap -- and so I was\u003cbr\u003e linked even then to writing and to the spell that stories cast. I\u003cbr\u003e didn't know a writing life was lying in store for me. I had to live\u003cbr\u003e and grow before I caught the faint call. Since heeding the call, \u003cbr\u003e I've worked hard at being faithful to it, for writing is an act of\u003cbr\u003e faith. We must keep faith each day with our writing if we want to\u003cbr\u003e be called writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Since I've been writing I've searched what's in my heart\u003cbr\u003e and its from that core that I write and not from what seems \u003cbr\u003e marketable. I am a Latina American. In my heart are stored the \u003cbr\u003e stories of my Latin American and Missourian heritage -- of a \u003cbr\u003e childhood lived in Mexico and El Salvador. When I write, I have to\u003cbr\u003e suppress the knowledge that mainstream America often ignores\u003cbr\u003e the stories of 'the other America.' Over the years, I've learned to\u003cbr\u003e write from the heart, to persevere despite the setbacks of a host\u003cbr\u003e of rejections. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In the end, I've learned these things about writing: its\u003cbr\u003e never too late to begin; we know all we need to know in order to\u003cbr\u003e do it; persistence and tenacity will take us all the way. There are\u003cbr\u003e angels on our shoulders, be still to catch their whisperings.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading Group Discussion Points \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOther Books With Reading Group Guides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.04 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750960759072,"sku":"9780684823881","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b04921854375e64d75d940e6ff0c0265.webp?v=1779961555","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/alli-donde-el-mar-recuerda-a-place-where-the-sea-remembers-a-place-where-the-sea-remembers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}